Enterprise Remote Control – Beta -- (IntelliAdmin) -- clever new beta tool that could be used with an internal “reflection server” to help manage remote-connection negotiations with minimal bandwidth hit.

OutlookStatView -- NirSoft utility updates. “Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.” and “Added 2 new columns: 'Average Incoming Messages Size' and 'Average Outgoing Messages Size'.”

OutlookAttachView -- NirSoft utility update. “Added support for embedded message attachments (attachments of another message). These attachments are saved as .msg files that can be opened by Outlook.”

NK2Edit -- NirSoft utility update. “Added 'NK2 Control Center' which allows companies to watch the status and the location of Outlook AutoComplete files (NK2) in all computers.”

altdrag - was a tiny tool highlighted by CyberNet News to help manage “lost” windows that open on a phantom position when you have removed a dual monitor output. Sure if you are in Windows 7 you can do that natively. My favorite freeware power-tool to do this is Window Seizer. Works on all my systems from XP to Win 7 x64 just fine. It has lots of other features as well for Windowed management. See also: WinSize2 and the WindowPad projects.

Windows Program Launch tools

Note: I know there are LOTS of othergreatapp-launchers, not just these. I’m only focusing on “dock” style launchers in this conversation.

Nexus -- I’m going to follow up to this blip in a later detailed post but for now, know that I have upgraded my Windows dock utility from the GSD-beloved free RocketDock application to the spanking hot Nexus dock system on my Windows 7 x64 platform which I had to destroy as noted in my last post. RocketDock is not specifically offered as Windows 7 compatible, though it generally plays well on my system, it is prone to issues with startup and shutdown of the system.

So I did some research and came up with Nexus. It is very mature and come is both a free (full featured!) version and a “Ultimate” for $ version.

It supports Windows 7, has all the eye-candy and high-res icon support you can want. Nice defaut skins and icon-action management options.

For a tiny version on Windows 7 systems, check out Ali’s Dünnpfiff’s free Jumplist-Launcher. It took me a while to get familiar with it (not because it is technically hard, just a different way of interacting with an power-icon). It is now my preferred quick-pick launching solution on business systems I use as it is more sedate but just as useful as the eye-candy of Nexus.

It has a lot more options and logon screen control setting tuning options than my oft-usedWindows 7 Logon Background Changer tool. I still also deploy the FxVisor Shortcut Arrow (method two) tool to minimize but retain the Windows Shortcut symbol applied to shortcut icons. Frameworxx looks to have disappeared but the VistaForums hosted downloads are still kickin.

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